Upstream information

CVE-2014-1896 at MITRE

Description

The (1) do_send and (2) do_recv functions in io.c in libvchan in Xen 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4-RC series allows local guests to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via crafted xenstore ring indexes, which triggers a "read or write past the end of the ring."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.9
Vector AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

Note from the SUSE Security Team on the xen package

This issue likely only affects the XEN hypervisor itself, unless otherwise stated. The userland utilities in -tools and libraries in -libs are shipped together with the xen hypervisor as they are built from one source and do not contain hypervisor specific fixes.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 860300 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3
  • xen >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-devel >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-doc-html >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-doc-pdf >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-kmp-default >= 4.2.4_02_3.0.101_0.15-0.7.1
  • xen-kmp-pae >= 4.2.4_02_3.0.101_0.15-0.7.1
  • xen-libs >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-libs-32bit >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-tools >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-tools-domU >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp3-xen-201402
sledsp3-xen-201402
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3
  • xen >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-devel >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-doc-html >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-doc-pdf >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-kmp-default >= 4.2.4_02_3.0.101_0.15-0.7.1
  • xen-kmp-pae >= 4.2.4_02_3.0.101_0.15-0.7.1
  • xen-libs >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-libs-32bit >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-tools >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
  • xen-tools-domU >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp3-xen-201402
slessp3-xen-201402
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3
  • xen-devel >= 4.2.4_02-0.7.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp3-xen-201402

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 xen Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4-LTSS xen Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS xen Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS xen Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS xen Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 xen Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 xen Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Feb 10 14:15:34 2014
CVE page last modified: Tue Oct 1 17:18:24 2024